Start Windows Service
  • 14 May 2021
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This is generated from the built in components of Otter 3.0.0, and may be different than what you have installed (especially if you have extensions); go to [User Icon] -> Documentation within your BuildMaster instance to see exactly what operations are available.

Start Windows Service

Starts an existing Windows service.

Script usage:

Start-Service(
	Name: <text>,
	[WaitForRunningStatus: <true/false>],
	[FailIfServiceDoesNotExist: <true/false>]
);

This operation may be prefixed with Windows::, although this is a built-in namespace and isn't really necessary.

Arguments:

NameFormatScript UsageUsage Notes
Service name (default)
text
Name
This argument is required.
Wait for running status
true/false
WaitForRunningStatus
Fail if service does not exist
true/false
FailIfServiceDoesNotExist

Example:

# starts the HDARS service on the remote server
Start-Service HDARS;

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